- UAMS Institutional Review Board Policy 2.3, Use of central institutional review boards, provides an overview of the external institutional review board process.
- Local site context questionnaire for sites that rely on the UAMS Institutional Review Board. You can ask sites to complete and return this form to you. You will submit each site’s completed form with the site addition modification adding that site.
- The Checklist for UAMS investigators relying on an external institutional review board
- The Checklist for UAMS investigators leading a multisite study for which the UAMS Institutional Review Board is the institutional review board of record
- Information to help study teams complete local site information forms for external institutional review boards and sponsors This document contains the information typically requested on other institution’s local site context forms.
- Communication plan when the UAMS IRB is the reviewing IRB. This document shows how the reviewing IRB, the UAMS IRB, intends to communicate with relying sites. Note that while other arrangements may be made when negotiating a reliance agreement, this is our default plan.
Contact the UAMS Institutional Review Board office for more information and forms at irb@uams.edu.